Definition
The residue of a meromorphic function at an isolated singularity, often denoted is the unique value such that has an analytic antiderivative in a punctured disk . Alternatively, residues can be calculated by finding Laurent series expansions, and one can define the residue as the coefficient a-1 of a Laurent series.
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